Missing Argentine Protester’s Body Identified Days Before Election

A man lights candles next to a portrait of Santiago Maldonado, a protester who went missing since security forces clashed with indigenous activists in Patagonia on August 1, 2017, placed at the entrance of a judicial morgue in Buenos Aires, Argentina October 20, 2017. Reuters/Marcos Brindicci

BUENOS AIRES—The family of a young protester who went missing in Argentina nearly three months ago identified his body on Friday, said a brother of the dead man to journalists after leaving the morgue.

Investigators discovered a body on Tuesday in the Chubut River in Patagonia, near where Santiago Maldonado was last seen at an indigenous rights protest on Aug. 1.